The Master Plan (comic story)

The Master Plan
Main character(s):	Missy, The Master
Featuring:	Twelfth Doctor, River, Third Doctor
Main setting:	The Doctor's TARDIS Stormcage Containment Facility, 52nd century
Key crew
Publisher:	Titan Publishing Group
Writer:	Jody Houser
Artist:	Roberta Ingranata
Colourist:	Enrica Eren Angiolini
Letterer:	Comicraft's Richard Starkings
Release details
Release date:	14 April - 28 July 2021
Doctor Who (2020)
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The Master Plan was the story published in the Doctor Who: Missy miniseries in 2021, starring Missy and the "UNIT enemy" Master.

It was created to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Master's first appearance on television.

Summary

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Characters

• Missy
• The Master
• Twelfth Doctor
• Third Doctor
• Administrator Cire
• River Song
• Jo Grant
• John Benton
• Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Spy Master
• Thirteenth Doctor
• Clara Oswald
• Saxon Master
• Tommo
• Ginger
• "Wimple Punkersonsmith"
• War Doctor
• Child Master
• Eighth Doctor
• Grace Holloway
• Decayed Master
• Tremas
• Fourth Doctor
• George McDermott
• Skithra Queen
• Krasko
• Dorium Maldovar
• The Hoarder
• Raxacoricofallapatorian
• Silent

Worldbuilding

• Missy's hat is adorned with rubber ducks.
• Prisoners kept at Stormcage Containment Facility include a Cyberman, a Skithra Queen, Krasko, Dorium Maldovar, Stilean flesh eaters, the Hoarder, a Raxacoricofallapatorian, and a Silent. Some of the facility staff are Vessicans and Sea Devils.
• Missy tells the Master that she is seeking a fragment of the Key to Time.
• River is imprisoned at Stormcage.
• Missy mentions the Corsair.
• Missy refers to her Saxon incarnation as being her "emo phase".
• Missy trips into a human she names "Wimple Punkersonsmith", and causes him to be eaten by the Saxon Master. She describes him as a murderer and a jaywalker to justify her actions.
• When seeing the War Doctor and Child Master, Missy says she can't remember which one is the Doctor and which one is the Master.

Notes

Dorium Maldovar

• Instead of his normal blue skin, Dorium Maldovar appears to have the same skin tone as the human Krasko. According to colourist Enrica Eren Angiolini, this is due to the green lighting of the scene.

Continuity

• Missy and the Master visit several points in their timeline, including the Spy Master threatening the Thirteenth Doctor in 1834 London, (TV: Spyfall) Missy and Clara Oswald finding the Twelfth Doctor in 1138 Essex, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) the Saxon Master surviving in a wasteland during 2009, (TV: The End of Time) the Eighth Doctor and Grace Holloway being chased by the Bruce Master and Chang Lee in 1999 San Francisco, (TV: Doctor Who) the Decayed Master preparing to steal Tremas' body on Traken (TV: The Keeper of Traken) and facing the Fourth Doctor in the Panopticon on Gallifrey, (TV: The Deadly Assassin) and George McDermott being killed by the UNIT-era Master. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
• The Third Doctor notes that he is trapped on Earth with his TARDIS incapable of flight, (TV: The War Games) but that exceptions to his exile can be made when it comes to the Master. (TV: Colony in Space)
• Missy impersonates the Doctor using the alias "Doctor Who", (TV: World Enough and Time) and wears a question mark on her skirt. (TV: The Leisure Hive, Castrovalva, The Twin Dilemma, Time and the Rani)
• Krasko is imprisoned at Stormcage. (TV: Rosa)
• Missy assumes watching Disney movies to be a part of Stormcage's rehabilitation process. At one point, Missy was forced to watch Frozen (a Disney movie) with the Doctor. (PROSE: Alit in Underland)
• The Master claims a sword in an attempt to stab Missy in the back, leading to a swordfight. (TV: The Sea Devils)
• Missy has already met River, but River has not met Missy yet. (AUDIO: The Bekdel Test)
• Missy notes that "the Doctor lies". (TV: The Big Bang, Let's Kill Hitler, The Wedding of River Song, The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Missy mentions the death of the Corsair. (TV: The Doctor's Wife) She also knows that Clara Oswald has died. (TV: Face the Raven)

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